Bug, or configuration option I missed?
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 6 21:08:28 CET 2007
That's a very interesting one. Can you give me a repeatable setup that
will reliably cause this problem?
What scanner was it that ran into trouble?
This one is definitely worth further investigation.
Jules.
randyf at sibernet.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi Folks-
>
> I had an interesting failure overnight that effectively was caused
> by a corrupted library for the virus scanner. This caused the virus
> scanner to time out in the eyes of MailScanner (and dump a lot of
> corefiles), and MailScanner then proceeded to believe that this was a
> silent virus and toss it as any of the other silent viruses
> (MailScanner thought it was a denial of service attack).
>
> If there isn't a configuration option to deal with this scenario,
> what would be better than tossing messages, would have been to
> quarantine the messages. But as in my case, I suspect that other
> checks in MailScanner would have caught a possible virus in that
> flurry, it would have been best to send the message through the
> remaining tests, and flag it somehow as not passing virus scanning.
>
> Is this a bug/feature-request, or did I miss a configuration option
> to handle virus scanner failures?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> RF
Jules
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